Spaulding News

I took this photograph during a July 1996 visit to the Illinois Railway Museum, located in the town of Union Illinois.

This photo was E mailed to Me last week Thursday. A Canadian National Railroad freight train, was involved in a very fiery and spectacular derailment at Spaulding Illinois near the town of Bartlet.

With one track temporarily reopened through the site of Thursday's freight-train derailment in Bartlett, Metra commuters headed for Chicago on the Milwaukee District West Line Friday morning experienced a fairly normal trip.

Devin A. Davis, 18, 674 Woodrow Ave., pleaded no contest to underage consumption and resisting arrest, was found guilty and fined $150 and court costs on each charge and was sentenced to three days in jail.

I found this classic 1960's era New York Central Railroad photo on the internet recently.